Club MTV is a half hour television show modeled after American Bandstand that aired on MTV from August 31, 1987 to June 26, 1992.[1]Club MTV was part of MTV's second generation of programming, as the channel was phasing out its original 5 VJs and introducing new ones.

With the rise in popularity of Freestyle music, Club MTV began using the music nearly exclusively with a few house and hip hop songs thrown in. In 1989, MTV introduced a companion show for Friday nights called Street Party that aired the complete videos of songs used on Club MTV.

Though molded after American Bandstand, the show had a more sophisticated, nightclub look, the women especially, many of them aspiring models, dressed in provocative clubwear—skintight dresses, Spandex pants, miniskirts, fishnet stockings—and the show became known for its sexual allure. In an MTV special broadcast in the fall of 1999 on some of the network's more scandalous moments, Rob Fox, casting director for Club MTV during its first year, argued that "Club MTV was supposed to be a teen dance show, but in a channel run by men it turned into a show that was pretty much 'Table-dance Afternoon.'"

Late in 1989, MTV launched their first Club MTV Tour featuring Was (Not Was), Information Society, Paula Abdul, Milli Vanilli and Tone Loc. But the tour was marred with troubles, on the first tour, singer Cathy Dennis who was booked for six weeks suddenly dropped out after three days, publicly accusing one of the members of Milli Vanilli, the tour's headline act, of sexual harassment. In addition Milli Vanilli was permitted by tour promoters to lip sync to pre-recorded tracks. One night a track began to skip midway through the song "Girl You Know It's True" while the show was being taped for broadcast. Later that year when it was revealed that neither Fab Morvan nor Rob Pilatus had performed on their album but the vocals had been recorded by other various studio singers, MTV was suspected of knowing that Milli Vanilli was a fraud all along. Tour promoters countered that lip-syncing was a common practice because of the exhausting dance routines artists did while performing.

During the 1992 tour, several acts dropped out midway through their bookings, forcing MTV to book new acts at the last minute, with most of the Freestyle acts no longer interested in the tour, MTV wound up booking hip hop and rap acts to replace them.

On March 20, 2005, VH1 Classic aired a marathon of old Club MTV episodes with a promise that the show would return in the future.

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Downtown Julie Brown
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Browns father was Jamaican and her mother, British. Brown has three brothers and three sisters, after winning the UK Disco Dancing Championships, she went on to win the World Disco Dancing Championship in 1979. Soon after, Brown began a career on British television as presenter and guest on a number of childrens programmes, Brown also appeared as a dancer on Top of the Pops in the early 1980s as a member of the dance troupe Zoo. Brown became a presenter on the music channel Music Box and, after moving to the United States, eventually became an MTV VJ. That show had a similar to American Bandstands but featured an exclusive lineup of dance music. From this came her catchphrase, Wubba Wubba Wubba, after she read the T-shirt of a camera crewmember who was holding the cue cards while on live TV. After leaving MTV, Brown went on to work for ESPN conducting on-, Brown then moved to Los Angeles to host the E Entertainment channels gossip show. She also became the host of the radio program American Dance Traxx in March 1992 until its final broadcast in December 1993. Brown has appeared in a number of movies and TV shows, including Spy Hard, Spring Break 83, The Weird Al Show, B*A*P*S, Ride, Walker, Texas Ranger, Battle Dome, im a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. The Dog Whisperer, The Eric Andre Show, and RuPauls Drag U, most recently, she appeared in televisions Wife Swap on 21 July 2013. She also appeared on the cover and posed nude for the August 1998 edition of Playboy, Brown is currently a host on the SiriusXM channel 90s on 9. In addition to hosting programmes, she hosts the The Back in The Day Replay Countdown. Brown married Airman Phillip Dukes, stationed at RAF Fairford in the early 1981, Brown married film producer and one-time CEO of Vision Motor Corporation Martin Schuermann in 2001. They live in Marina del Rey, California, USA with their daughter, downtown Julie Brown at the Internet Movie Database

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange

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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year

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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years

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American Bandstand
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American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer. Freddy Boom Boom Cannon holds the record for most appearances at 110, the shows popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul and inspired similar long-running music programs, such as Soul Train and Top of the Pops. Clark eventually assumed ownership of the program through his Dick Clark Productions company and this incarnation was an early predecessor of sorts of the music video shows that became popular in the 1980s, featuring films that are themselves the ancestors of music videos. As WFIL grew financially and the account became important, Stewart wasnt needed and was eventually dropped from the program. Tony Mammarella was the producer with Ed Yates as director. The short Snader and Official music films continued in the term, mainly to fill gaps as they changed dancers during the show—a necessity. On July 9,1956, Horn was fired after a drunk-driving arrest, as WFIL and he was also reportedly involved in a prostitution ring and brought up on morals charges. Horn was temporarily replaced by producer Tony Mammarella before the job went to Dick Clark permanently, in late spring of 1956, the ABC television network asked their O&Os and affiliates for programming suggestions to fill their 3,30 p. m. time slot. Clark decided to pitch the show to ABC president Thomas W. Moore, One show from this first season is now in the archives of Chicagos Museum Of Broadcast Communications. Studio B measured 80x42x24, but appeared smaller due to the number of props, television cameras and it was briefly shot in color in 1958 when WFIL-TV began experimenting with the then-new technology. WFIL went back to the TK-10s two weeks later when ABC refused to carry the signal and management realized that the show lost something without the extra cameras. Clark would often interview the teenagers about their opinions of the songs being played, the segment gave rise, perhaps apocryphally, to the phrase Its got a good beat and you can dance to it. In one humorous segment broadcast for years on retrospective shows, comedians Cheech, featured artists typically performed their current hits by lip-syncing to the released version of the song. During this time, there were shows that were not hosted by Clark. From 1969 to 1974, Bandstand Theme, a rock instrumental written by Mike Curb. From 1974 to 1977, there was a newer, orchestral version of Bandstand Boogie, arranged and performed by Joe Porter. From 1977 to the end of its ABC run in 1987, the opened and closed with Barry Manilows rendition of Bandstand Boogie. This version introduced lyrics written by Manilow and Bruce Sussman, referencing elements of the series, the previous theme was retained as bumper music

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Paula Abdul
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Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, voice actress, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the video era. Abdul later scored a string of pop hits in the late 1980s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for seventh among the female performers who have topped the chart. She won a Grammy for Best Music Video – Short Form for Opposites Attract, after her initial period of success, Abdul suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life. She saw renewed fame and success as a judge on American Idol in the 2000s. Abdul was born in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents, Abduls father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian-Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. Rykiss, grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Ukraine, Abdul holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. She has a sister named Wendy, in 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School. An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin in the Rain. Abdul began taking lessons at an early age in ballet, jazz. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader, at 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School. Abdul studied broadcasting at the California State University, Northridge, during her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team—the famed Laker Girls. Within a year, she became head choreographer, Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single Torture and my only problem was how to tell the Jacksons how to dance, Abdul later recalled. Imagine me telling them what routines to do, I was young, I was scared. Im not quite sure how I got through that, the success of the choreography in the video led to Abduls career of choreographer in music videos. It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons Victory tour, Abdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era

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Jody Watley
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In 1987, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Along with Janet Jackson and Madonna, she ranks as one of MTV Video Music Awards most nominated female artists ever, with six nominations for her ‘Real Love’ video. In 2008, she was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Billboard magazine, in December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 21st most successful dance artists of all-time. Watley was born in Chicago, Illinois, Watley made her first stage appearance at 8 years old with family friend and godfather Jackie Wilson. She got her start on the TV dance show Soul Train at the age of 14. Documented by Ebony magazine in 1977 as a part of The New Generation, Jody Watley was one of the most popular on the show and recognized as a trendsetter for her style, the lineup of Hewett, Watley, and Daniel would be the most successful. Watley remained with the group from 1977 to 1983, the trio released several albums and scored several hits including the US Top 20 Dead Giveaway, and the R&B hits The Second Time Around, For The Lover In You, and A Night To Remember. Post-Shalamar, Watley moved to England, and while there she recorded a guest vocal with British Jamaican roots reggae group Musical Youth for their album Different Style and she also recorded with Gary Langan, Anne Dudley and J. J Jeczalik. She had a stint with Phonogram Records where two singles were released under the moniker Jody, Where the Boys Are and Girls Night Out. After two and a half years in England, Watley returned to America and secured a deal with MCA Records. Her album Jody Watley was released in March 1987, and she co-wrote six of the nine songs. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Watley would say that she wanted to showcase her voice against really funky hard dance tracks, the albums lead single, Looking for a New Love, became a hit and was certified gold. The album peaked at #10 on the US Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, number-one on the Billboard Hot R&B Albums Chart, at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988, Watley won the award for Best New Artist, and was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. That same year, she received nominations for four MTV Video Music Awards. After Shalamar she had two singles released under the name of Jody without her name even though adverts in UK pop magazine Smash Hits mentioned that she was Formerly of Shalamar. This technicality allowed her controversially to be considered a New Artist at the Grammys, beating Breakfast Club, Cutting Crew, Terence Trent DArby, shortly after winning the Grammy Award, Watley would be featured in Harpers Bazaar magazine photographed by Francesco Scavullo. In the spring of 1989, Watley released her album, Larger than Life. & Rakim, and Everything, her first ballad release, the albums fourth and final single, Precious Love, was a minor hit, peaking at #87 in the US

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Debbie Harry
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Deborah Ann Debbie Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress best known as the lead singer of the new wave band Blondie. She recorded several worldwide number one singles with Blondie during the 1970s and 1980s and she is sometimes considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the United States owing to her work on Rapture. She has also had success as a solo artist before reforming Blondie in the late 1990s and her acting career spans over 60 film roles and numerous television appearances. Deborah Harry was born in Miami, Florida, and then adopted at three months of age by Richard Smith and Catherine Harry, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne and she attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965, before starting her singing career, she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radios office there for one year. Later, she was a waitress at Maxs Kansas City, a dancer in a Union City, New Jersey discothèque. In the late 1960s, Harry began her career as a backing singer for the folk rock group the Wind in the Willows. The group also recorded an album, it was never released. In 1974, Harry joined the Stilettoes with Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones and her eventual boyfriend and Blondie guitarist, Chris Stein, joined the band shortly after. After leaving the Stilettoes, Harry and Stein formed Angel and the Snake with Tish Bellomo, shortly thereafter, Harry and Stein formed Blondie, naming it after the term of address men often called Harry when she bleached her hair blonde. Members of Blondie quickly became regulars at Maxs Kansas City and CBGB in New York City, after a debut album in 1976, commercial success followed in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, first in Australia and Europe and then in the United States. In 1989 and 2010 interviews, Harry claimed that during the early 1970s she had lured into a car driven by serial killer Ted Bundy while in New York City. Snopes. com noted that Ann Rule, an author of a book on Bundy, while leading Blondie, Harry and Stein became partners in life as well as musically. In the mid 1980s, she took a few years off to care for Stein while he suffered with pemphigus, Stein and Harry broke up in the 1980s but continued to work together. In a 2014 Daily Mail interview, Harry confirmed rumors that she has had relationships with women. She had made remarks in previous interviews. With her distinctive features and two-tone bleached-blonde hair, Harry quickly became a punk icon. Her look was popularized by the bands early presence in the music video revolution of the era

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Vanessa Williams
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Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American actress, singer, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. However, a few prior to the end of her reign. Williams thus resigned as Miss America on July 22,1984, a few years later, she rebounded as an entertainer with the song The Right Stuff. She then had a string of albums and singles and also found success as an actress. You have lived life in grace and dignity, and never was it more evident than during the events of 1984. Though none of us currently in the organization were involved then, on behalf of todays organization, I want to apologize to you and to your mother, Miss Helen Williams. I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are, Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in the The Bronx, New York, with a birth announcement that read, Here she is, Miss America. Her maternal great-great grandfather was William A. Feilds, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives and her mother, Helen Tinch, met her father, Milton Augustine Williams Jr. while both were music education students at Fredonia State Teachers College in the late 1950s. They both became elementary school music teachers after marriage, though their positions were in separate districts. Milton also served as the Assistant Principal of his school for a period of time. Williams was raised Roman Catholic, the religion of her father and her mother, who had been raised Baptist, converted to Catholicism when she got married. Williams was baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church in the Bronx, Williams mother played the organ at St. Theresas Church in Briarcliff Manor for weddings and at mass and Williams used to assist her mother by turning the pages of sheet music. Williams and her younger brother Chris grew up in a predominantly white suburb of New York City. Williams believes that she may have been the first African-American student to go from the first grade to the 12th grade in the Chappaqua Central School District. As the child of teachers, Williams grew up in a musical household, studying classical and jazz dance, French horn, piano. Thus, in 1981, Williams joined Syracuses College of Visual and Performing Arts and she stayed at Syracuse through her sophomore year, until she was crowned Miss America 1984 in September 1983. Twenty-five years later in May 2008, Syracuse granted Williams a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, according to Syracuse News, Williams earned the remaining credits for her degree through industry experience and her substantial performances on stage and screen

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Sheena Easton
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Sheena Shirley Easton is a Scottish singer, recording artist and stage and screen actress with dual UK-United States nationality. Eastons first two singles, Modern Girl and 9 to 5, both entered the UK Top Ten, and she was the first UK female artist to appear twice in the same Top Ten since Ruby Murray. She has recorded 16 studio albums, released 45 singles total worldwide, Top 40 singles, seven U. S. top tens and one U. S. No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1981 and 1991. She also had 25 top 40 hits in international territories around the world, in Canada, Easton scored three gold and two platinum albums. She has sold over 20 million albums and singles worldwide, Eastons other hits include the James Bond theme For Your Eyes Only, Strut, U Got the Look and The Arms of Orion with Prince, The Lover in Me and What Comes Naturally. She has worked with prominent vocalists and producers, such as Prince, Christopher Neil, Kenny Rogers, David Foster, Luis Miguel, L. A. Reid & Babyface, Patrice Rushen and Nile Rodgers. Easton was born Sheena Shirley Orr in the Scottish town of Bellshill and she had two brothers, Robert and Alex, and three sisters, Marilyn, Anessa and Morag. Eastons father died in 1969 and her mother had to support the family, Easton did not consider a singing career until she saw the movie The Way We Were, with Barbra Streisand. Streisands singing over the opening credits overtook the young girl and convinced her that what she wanted most was to be a singer and she chose to study teaching rather than performing, because it was a course of study that would let her perfect her craft as a singer. In 1979, she married Sandi Easton, the first of her four husbands and they divorced after eight months, and Sheena decided to keep the surname Easton. That year, one of her tutors coaxed her into auditioning for Esther Rantzen, Rantzen was planning a documentary film to chronicle a relative unknowns rise to pop-music stardom. Easton was selected as the subject for the programme, where she met and sang with Dusty Springfield and Lulu, within a year of the programme airing, Sheena Easton proved Massey wrong as EMI executives awarded her a contract, and Christopher Neil was assigned as her recording producer. Deke Arlon became her first manager, and Easton spent much of 1980 being followed by camera crews and her first single, the disco-tinged soft-synth-pop tune, Modern Girl, was released in the UK before The Big Time aired, reached number 56 and was certified a Silver single. At the end of the show, Easton was still unsure of her future as a singer. The question was resolved soon after the show aired, when her single,9 to 5. Modern Girl re-entered the chart subsequently and climbed into the top 10, during 1980, Easton was voted Best British Female Singer by the Daily Mirror Pop & Rock Awards, Best Newcomer by Capital Radio, and Best Female Singer by the TV Times Readers Awards. Morning Train became Eastons first and only number 1 hit in the US, the song was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe award in 1982 in the category Best Music. Eastons US success culminated in her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1981, Eastons first three US albums, Sheena Easton, You Could Have Been With Me, and Madness, Money and Music, were all in the same soft rock/adult contemporary pop vein

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Salt-N-Pepa
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Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens, New York. The group, consisting of Cheryl James, Sandra Denton and originally Latoya Hanson and they won the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. The group entered the industry at a time when hip hop music was believed to be a fad. Many early hip hop artists recorded for independent labels, originally calling themselves Super Nature, James and Denton debuted in 1985 with the single The Showstopper, an answer record to Doug E. Freshs hit single The Show. The Showstopper was produced by Hurby Azor, the song utilized a melody from the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. The finished recording garnered some airplay on a New York City rap radio program, the independent Pop Art Records gave it an official release, and The Showstopper became a modest R&B hit. Salt-N-Pepa made their impact on hip-hop by being one of the first all-female rap groups, with lots of concerns about sexist lyrics and video clips that objectified womens bodies in hip hop music, many feminists disliked rap and hip-hop music because of its bad portrayal of women. However, Salt-N-Pepa changed the look of hip hop and they were scantily clad in sexy clothing and were not afraid to talk about sex and their thoughts about men. Their song Lets Talk About Sex was a huge hit, with the success of Showstopper, the groups name was changed to Salt-N-Pepa and they signed to the independent Next Plateau Records to record a full-length album. Roper then joined the group as the DJ, replacing DJ Latoya Hanson as Spinderella, the album was produced by Hurby Azor, Salts boyfriend at the time and also the groups manager. Years later, the women would have issues with Azor as they accused him of paying unfair royalties. Hot, Cool & Vicious provided some moderate R&B hits with the singles My Mic Sound Nice, Tramp, but when San Francisco DJ and producer Cameron Paul created a remix to Push It, the B-side of the Tramp single, it gave the group their first major hit. Push It became a single in the United States, and a hit in several other countries. The album ultimately sold 1.4 million copies worldwide, Salt-N-Pepas next album release, 1988s A Salt with a Deadly Pepa, contained the Top Ten R&B hit Shake Your Thang, featuring the go-go band E. U. A top 20 R&B hit and a pop hit were seen in Get Up Everybody and Twist and Shout, respectively, with Twist and Shout becoming a major hit in the UK. The album sold about 800,000 copies worldwide with roughly 600,000 of those in the US, the groups third album Blacks Magic was released in March 1990, and was a personal album for the trio on many fronts. Pepa would become the first group member to become pregnant, Azor would produce some songs on the album. As he was producing other acts, he agreed to let the work with different producers to finish the album

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MC Hammer
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Stanley Kirk Burrell, better known by his stage name M. C. Hammer, is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer, entrepreneur and he had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the late 1990s. Remembered for his rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records, flashy dance movements, choreography. Hammer is considered a forefather/pioneer and innovator of pop rap, and is the first hip hop artist to achieve diamond status for an album, regardless, BET ranked Hammer as the #7 Best Dancer Of All Time. Vibes The Best Rapper Ever Tournament declared him the 17th favorite of all-time during the first round, Burrell became a preacher during the late 1990s with a Christian ministry program on TBN called M. C. Prior to becoming ordained, Hammer signed with Suge Knights Death Row Records by 1995, throughout his career, Hammer has managed his own recording business. As a result, he has created and produced his own acts including Oaktowns 3.5.7, Special Generation, Analise, DRS, B Angie B, stanley Kirk Burrell was born on March 30,1962 in Oakland, California. His father was a poker player and gambling casino manager. He grew up poor with his mother and eight siblings in an apartment in East Oakland. He recalled that six children were crammed into a housing project apartment. The Burrells would also frequent thoroughbred horse races, eventually becoming owners and winners of several graded stakes, in the Oakland Coliseum parking lot the young Burrell would sell stray baseballs and dance accompanied by a beatboxer. Oakland As team owner Charles O. Finley saw the 11-year-old doing splits and hired him as an assistant and batboy as a result of his energy. Burrell served as a batboy with the team from 1973 to 1980, the colorful Finley, who lived in Chicago, used the child as his eyes and ears. I nicknamed him Hammer, because he looked like Hank Aaron, team players, including Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Pedro Garcia, also dubbed Burrell Little Hammer due to his resemblance to Aaron. Ron Bergman, at the time an Oakland Tribune writer who covered the As, recalled that, He was an informant in the clubhouse, an informant for Charlie, according to Hammer, Charlie said, Im getting you a new hat. I dont want you to have a hat that says As on it, Im getting you a hat that says Ex VP, that says Executive Vice President. Youre running the joint around here, every time I come down to the clubhouse, you know, Rollie would yell out Oh, everybody be quiet. He acquired the nickname M. C. for being a Master of Ceremonies which he used when he began performing at clubs while on the road with the As

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Pet Shop Boys
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Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, Other hit songs include a cover of Go West, Opportunities and What Have I Done to Deserve This. in a duet with Dusty Springfield. At the 2009 Brit Awards in London, Pet Shop Boys received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Music, in 2016, Billboard magazine named Pet Shop Boys the No.1 Billboard Dance duo/group over the 40 years since the charts inception in 1976. In 2017 the duo received NMEs Godlike Genius Award, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London, in August 1981. Recognising a mutual interest in music, they began to work together on material, first in Tennants flat in Chelsea and from 1982. It was during early years that several future hit songs were created, including Its a Sin, West End Girls, Rent. Their big break came in August 1983, when Tennant was assigned by Smash Hits to interview The Police in New York, the duo were obsessed with a stream of Hi-NRG records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, simply known as Bobby O. According to Tennant, I thought, well, if Ive got to go and see The Police play, in April 1984, the Orlando-produced West End Girls was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 2 November, it was voted Screamer of the Week by listeners of Long Island and it was a minor dance hit in Belgium and France, but was only available in the United Kingdom as a 12 import. In March 1985, after negotiations, Pet Shop Boys cut their contractual ties with Bobby O. Hiring manager Tom Watkins, they signed with the London-based Parlophone label, in April, Tennant left Smash Hits and in July, a new single, Opportunities, was released, reaching number 116 in the UK. The B-side to this single, In the Night, later resurfaced, in a remixed version, as the opening track to the duos first remix album, Disco. This version was used as the theme for the UK television series The Clothes Show. Unperturbed by the low position, the band returned to the studio in August to re-record West End Girls with producer Stephen Hague. Released in October 1985, this new version entered the charts at a similarly low position. It was subsequently number one in the United States, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Israel, New Zealand and Norway and it remains the most-heard Pet Shop Boys song to date. After the success of West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys released a single, Love Comes Quickly. The single reached number 19 in the UK Singles Chart and was followed by their album, Please

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European Union
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The European Union is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757 km2, the EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states. Within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished, a monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency. The EU operates through a system of supranational and intergovernmental decision-making. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community, the community and its successors have grown in size by the accession of new member states and in power by the addition of policy areas to its remit. While no member state has left the EU or its antecedent organisations, the Maastricht Treaty established the European Union in 1993 and introduced European citizenship. The latest major amendment to the basis of the EU. The EU as a whole is the largest economy in the world, additionally,27 out of 28 EU countries have a very high Human Development Index, according to the United Nations Development Programme. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, through the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the EU has developed a role in external relations and defence. The union maintains permanent diplomatic missions throughout the world and represents itself at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G7, because of its global influence, the European Union has been described as an emerging superpower. After World War II, European integration was seen as an antidote to the nationalism which had devastated the continent. 1952 saw the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, the supporters of the Community included Alcide De Gasperi, Jean Monnet, Robert Schuman, and Paul-Henri Spaak. These men and others are credited as the Founding fathers of the European Union. In 1957, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany signed the Treaty of Rome and they also signed another pact creating the European Atomic Energy Community for co-operation in developing nuclear energy. Both treaties came into force in 1958, the EEC and Euratom were created separately from the ECSC, although they shared the same courts and the Common Assembly. The EEC was headed by Walter Hallstein and Euratom was headed by Louis Armand, Euratom was to integrate sectors in nuclear energy while the EEC would develop a customs union among members. During the 1960s, tensions began to show, with France seeking to limit supranational power, Jean Rey presided over the first merged Commission. In 1973, the Communities enlarged to include Denmark, Ireland, Norway had negotiated to join at the same time, but Norwegian voters rejected membership in a referendum

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Vanilla Ice
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Robert Matthew Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Ices 1990 single Ice Ice Baby was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts, after surviving a suicide attempt, Ice was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. While his later, less mainstream albums failed to chart or receive radio airplay. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network and his latest album WTF – Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Ice is currently signed to Psychopathic Records, robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 31,1967. Van Winkle has never known his father, he was given the family name of the Dutch man his mother was married to at the time of his birth. When Van Winkle was four, his mother divorced, afterward, he grew up moving between Dallas and Miami, where his new stepfather worked at a car dealership. Hip hop affected Van Winkle at an age, saying Its a very big passion of mine because I love poetry. I was just heavily influenced by that movement and its molded me into who I am today. Between the ages of 13 and 14, Van Winkle practiced breakdancing, although he disliked the nickname, it stuck. Shortly afterward, Van Winkle started battle rapping at parties and because of his rhymes, however, when he became a member of a breakdance troupe, Van Winkles stage name was Vanilla Ice combining his nickname Vanilla with one of his breakdance moves, The Ice. When Ices stepfather was offered a job in Carrollton, Texas. He attended R. L. Turner High School for a time before dropping out. When Ice was not learning to ride motorbikes, he was dancing as a performer with his breakdancing group. Ice wrote Ice Ice Baby at the age of 16, basing its lyrics on a weekend he had with friend, the lyrics describe Ice and Shay on a drug run that ends in a drive-by shooting while praising Ices rhyming skills. In 1985, he was focusing all of his energy on motocross, Ice used his beatboxing and breakdancing skills as a street performer with his friends at local malls during this time. One evening he visited City Lights, a South Dallas nightclub and he won the crowd over and was asked by City Lights manager John Bush if he wanted to perform regularly, which he accepted. Ice would be joined on stage with his disc jockey D-Shay and Zero as well as Earthquake, the Vanilla Ice Posse or The V. I. P. would also perform with Ice on stage

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Samantha Fox
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Samantha Karen Fox is an English dance-pop singer, songwriter, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at age 16, she began appearing as a model on Page 3 of British tabloid The Sun. During this time, she became the most popular girl of her era. She later came out as a lesbian, in 1986, she launched her pop-music career with her debut single Touch Me, which hit number one in 17 countries. In 1988, Fox received a Brit Award nomination for Best British Female Artist and she has also appeared in a number of films and reality television shows, and has occasionally worked as a television presenter. Fox was born in Mile End, East London, the eldest daughter of actress Carole Ann Wilken and she has a younger sister, Vanessa, and two half-siblings from her fathers second marriage, Frederica and Frankie. Fox comes from a family of market traders, Fox attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green and took an interest in the theatre from an early age. She first appeared on a stage at age three, and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from age 15. The next year she got her first record deal, with Lamborghini Records, in 1983, when Fox was 16, her mother submitted several photographs that she had taken of her daughter in lingerie to The Sunday People newspapers Girl of the Year amateur modelling contest. She came in out of 20,000 entrants and the photographs drew her to the attention of the newspaper The Sun. Her parents gave their consent for her to pose topless, and she signed a four-year Page 3 modelling contract with the Sun, and won its Page 3 Girl of the Year award for three consecutive years between 1984 and 1986. She is recognized today as the most popular girl of her era. In 1986, Fox retired from Page 3 modelling, at the age of 20, in 1995, aged 29, she made a one-off appearance in The Sun to promote Page 3s 25th anniversary. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the every day of that week. The following year, she appeared in the October issue of Playboy magazine, in 2008, Fox was voted the top Page 3 girl of all time. In December 2009, her latest compilation was issued, Greatest Hits, in 2012 her first 4 albums were-re-issued as double deluxe CDs by Cherry Red. In the late 1980s, Fox appeared in advertisements for Leicestershire-based car dealership network with the slogan Follow the Fox to Swithland Motors. Around the same time, she appeared in television adverts for bingo in The Sun newspaper

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Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin. Initially associated with the English punk rock scene, the band evolved to create a form of post-punk discord full of daring rhythmic and sonic experimentation. With the release of Juju in 1981, the group became an important influence on the emerging gothic rock scene. They disbanded in 1996, with Siouxsie and drummer Budgie continuing to record music as the Creatures, in 2004, Siouxsie began a solo career. Siouxsie and the Banshees work places highly in both polls and music papers lists. The Times cited the group as one of the most audacious, in 2006, Mojo rated guitarist John McGeoch in their list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time for his work on Spellbound. Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded, from February 1976, Siouxsie, Severin and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex Pistols. Journalist Caroline Coon dubbed them the Bromley Contingent, as most of them came from the Bromley region of South London, There was no such thing, it was just a bunch of people drawn together by the way they felt and they looked. They were all inspired by the Sex Pistols and their uncompromising attitude, two days later, the pair appeared at the festival held in London on 20 September 1976. With two borrowed musicians at their side, Marco Pirroni on guitar and John Simon Ritchie on drums, while the band intended to split up after the gig, they were asked to play again. Two months later, Siouxsie and Severin recruited drummer Kenny Morris, after playing several gigs in early 1977, the band realised that Fenton did not fit in because he was a real rock guitarist. John McKay finally took his place in July, while the band sold out venues in London in early 1978, they still had problems getting the right recording contract that could give them complete artistic control. Polydor finally offered this guarantee and signed them in June and their first single, Hong Kong Garden, featuring a xylophone motif, reached the top 10 in the UK shortly after. The band released their album, The Scream, in November 1978. Nick Kent of NME said of the record, The band sounds like some unique hybrid of the Velvet Underground mated with much of the ingenuity of Tago Mago-era Can, if any parallel can be drawn. At the end of the article, he added this remark, Certainly, the Banshees second album, Join Hands, was released in 1979. In Melody Maker, Jon Savage described Poppy Day as a short, powerful evocation of the Great War graveyards, the Banshees embarked on a major tour to promote the album. A few dates into the tour in September, Morris and McKay left an in-store signing after an argument, in need of replacements to fulfill tour dates, the Banshees manager called drummer Budgie, formerly with the Slits, and asked him to audition

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Ramones
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The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first band to define the punk-rock sound, despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the 1970s punk movement in both the United States and United Kingdom. All of the members adopted pseudonyms ending with the surname Ramone. They performed 2,263 concerts, touring virtually nonstop for 22 years, in 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played a farewell concert and disbanded. By 2014, all four of the original members, lead singer Joey Ramone, bass guitarist Dee Dee Ramone, lead guitarist Johnny Ramone. In 2002, the Ramones were ranked the second-greatest band of all time by Spin magazine, on March 18,2002, the original four members and Tommys replacement on drums, Marky Ramone, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011, the group was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the original members of the band met in and around the middle-class neighborhood of Forest Hills in the New York City borough of Queens. John Cummings and Thomas Erdelyi had both been in a garage band from 1965 to 1967 known as the Tangerine Puppets. They became friends with Douglas Colvin, who had moved to the area from Germany, and Jeffrey Hyman. The Ramones began taking shape in early 1974 when Cummings and Colvin invited Hyman to join them in a band, the initial line-up featured Colvin on lead vocals, rhythm and bass guitars, Cummings on lead guitar, and Hyman on drums. Hyman soon switched from drums to vocals, Colvin was the first to adopt the name Ramone, calling himself Dee Dee Ramone. He was inspired by Paul McCartneys use of the pseudonym Paul Ramon during his Silver Beetles days, Dee Dee convinced the other members to take on the name and came up with the idea of calling the band the Ramones. Hyman and Cummings became Joey and Johnny Ramone, respectively, a friend of the band, Monte A. Melnick, helped to arrange rehearsal time for them at Manhattans Performance Studios, where he worked. Johnnys former bandmate Erdelyi was set to become their manager, soon after the band was formed, Dee Dee realized that he could not sing and play his bass guitar simultaneously, with Erdelyis encouragement, Joey became the bands new lead singer. Dee Dee would continue, however, to count off each songs tempo with his signature shout of 1-2-3-4. Joey soon similarly realized that he could not sing and play drums simultaneously, while auditioning prospective replacements, Erdelyi would often take to the drums and demonstrate how to play the songs. It became apparent that he was able to perform the music better than anyone else. The Ramones played before an audience for the first time on March 30,1974, the songs they played were very fast and very short, most clocked in at under two minutes

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Mr. Mister
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Mr. Mister was an American pop rock band most popular in the 1980s. The bands name came from a joke about a Weather Report album called Mr. Gone where they referred to each other as Mister This or Mister That. Mr. Mister may be considered as representative of the sound of 1980s pop rock. Mr. Mister was the successor to the band Pages, fronted by Page and George from 1978 to 1981, although formed in Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. Mister was based in Los Angeles. Richard Page had previously worked as a musician and had composed for Michael Jackson, Rick Springfield, Donna Summer, Kenny Loggins, Al Jarreau. In 1978, Page and his childhood friend Steve George founded the band Pages in Phoenix, Pages explored a pop fusion sound, with a changing lineup of session musicians. Although Pages had a hit single with I Do Believe in You. After disbanding Pages in 1981, Page and George focused on songwriting, by 1982, Page and George began putting together a more pop-oriented group with a permanent lineup, rounded out by drummer Pat Mastelotto and guitarist Steve Farris. All four members had done session work for other artists. Their second album, 1985s Welcome to the Real World—with lyrics from Pages cousin John Lang—was the breakthrough for Mr. Mister, all three singles were in the top 10, two of which hit No.1 on the U. S. pop charts—Kyrie and Broken Wings. The latter was inspired by the book of the title by Khalil Gibran. They had several No.1 MTV videos, and performed at the first MTV Spring Break show in 1986 and that year, Mr. Mister had two Grammy Award nominations, including Best Pop Band. During this time, Mr. Mister toured with popular acts including Don Henley, The Bangles, Eurythmics, Tina Turner, Heart. The bands third album was Go On. which was not a commercial success, during the 1980s, the group wrote and/or performed songs for several movies, including the title song for Stand and Deliver, and Is It Love as the outro track for Stakeout. The band also made appearances with the pop rock band The Bangles. Guitarist Steve Farris left in 1988, the remaining bandmembers teamed up with Christian recording artist Paul Clark and acted as his backup band for Clarks 1988 indie release Awakening from the Western Dream. Next, the band working on a fourth album, Pull, with session guitarists Buzz Feiten, Trevor Rabin, Doug Macaskill. The album was completed in 1990, but RCA Records decided not to release it, soon afterward, the band broke up

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INXS
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INXS were an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. They began playing covers in Western Australian pubs and clubs, occasionally playing some of their original music, mainstays were main composer and keyboardist Andrew Farriss, drummer Jon Farriss, guitarists Tim Farriss and Kirk Pengilly, bassist Garry Gary Beers and main lyricist and vocalist Michael Hutchence. For twenty years, INXS was fronted by Hutchence, whose good looks. Initially known for their new style, the band later developed a harder pub rock style that included funk. In 1980, INXS first charted in their native Australia with their debut self-titled album, but later garnered moderate success in countries with Shabooh Shoobah. Though The Swing brought more success from around the world, its single Original Sin was even greater commercially, in the 1990s, INXS achieved a greater fan following through Hutchences romance with fellow Australian singer Kylie Minogue, and achieved greater acclaim in the United Kingdom. However, starting with Welcome to Wherever You Are, in 1992, after Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney in November 1997, the band did not perform publicly for a year. They made appearances with several guest singers, including Jimmy Barnes, Terence Trent DArby and Jon Stevens, Stevens formally joined the band for a tour and recording session in 2002. In 2005, members of INXS participated in Rock Star, INXS, with Fortune, the band released Pretty Vegas and Afterglow as singles, and the album Switch. In late 2010, the recorded and released Original Sin. INXS won six Australian Recording Industry Association awards including three for Best Group in 1987,1989 and 1992, and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001, as of June 2015, INXS has sold over 50 million records worldwide. The origins of the band began with Andrew Farriss convincing his fellow Davidson High School classmate, Michael Hutchence, to join his band, Doctor Dolphin. The band contained two other classmates, Kent Kerny and Neil Sanders and a player, Garry Beers and Geoff Kennely, from a nearby high school. In 1977, Tim Farriss, Andrews older brother, invited Andrew, Hutchence and Beers to join him, Tim and Pengilly had been playing together since 1971 as either an acoustic duo, Kirk and Tim, or as a four-piece band called Guinness. The band made their debut on 16 August 1977 at Whale Beach,40 km north of Sydney. Andrew Farriss remembers, I thought the show went really well, but I think my dad summed it up the day, Great show. I think everyone might have been stoned and they briefly performed as The Vegetables, singing We Are the Vegetables, before returning to Sydney ten months later, where they recorded a set of demos. At a chance meeting in the car park of the Narrabeen Antler, a pub in Narrabeen on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Tim was approached by Gary Morris, the manager of Midnight Oil

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The Go-Go's
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The Go-Gos were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. The Go-Gos rose to fame during the early 1980s as a band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, rising to the top of the Billboard album charts. Their 1981 debut album, Beauty and the Beat, is considered one of the albums of new wave, breaking barriers. When the album was released, it climbed the Billboard 200 chart. 1, where it remained for six consecutive weeks, the album sold in excess of 2 million copies and reached double platinum status, making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. The Go-Gos have sold more than 7 million albums, formed in Los Angeles in 1978, the Go-Gos initially consisted of Belinda Carlisle, Jane Wiedlin, Margot Olavarria and Elissa Bello. They were formed as a band and had roots in the L. A. punk community, they shared a rehearsal space with the Motels. Due to a bout of mononucleosis, she left the Germs before playing a gig, charlotte Caffey was added later in 1978, and in the summer of 1979, Gina Schock replaced Bello on drums. With these lineup changes, the group moving towards their more-familiar power pop sound. The group used to meet at a now-defunct Dennys on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. During late 1979, the recorded a five-song demo at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. The Go-Go’s subsequently spent half of 1980 touring England, earning a sizable following and releasing the demo version of We Got the Beat on Stiff Records, which became a minor UK hit. During December 1980, original bassist Olavarria fell ill with hepatitis A and was replaced with Kathy Valentine, who had played guitar in such as Girlschool. Valentine had not previously played bass guitar, in late 1982, Olavarria sued the remaining members of the band for wrongfully throwing her out. The suit was settled in 1984, Olavarria later joined Martin Atkins band Brian Brain. Their debut album, Beauty and the Beat, was a hit, it topped the U. S. charts for six weeks in 1982. The album was also a success outside the U. S. charting at No.2 in Canada, where it received a platinum certification, in 2003, the album was ranked No.413 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Our Lips Are Sealed and a new version of We Got the Beat were extremely popular singles in North America in early 1982, during this period, the Go-Gos became Americas sweethearts and started building a fanbase

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Belinda Carlisle
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Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Gos, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time. Originally beginning her career in 1977 as a member of the Los Angeles punk band the Germs, the Go-Gos would go on to sell 8 million albums in just three years. Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed, published in June 2010, was a New York Times Best Seller, on August 11,2011, as a member of the Go-Gos, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carlisle was born in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, to Harold Carlisle, a vacuum cleaner salesman, and his wife, Joanne. She was named after her mothers film, Johnny Belinda. The first of seven siblings with three brothers and three sisters, Carlisle was five years old when her father abandoned their family and her mother would later remarry to Walt Kurczeski, with whom Carlisle had a tumultuous relationship. The family moved frequently during her childhood, from Simi Valley to Reseda, at age ten, Carlisle began to express interest in music, and recalled The Beach Boys, Cat Stevens, The Stylistics, and The Animals as being early musical influences. During her teenage years, Carlisle became rebellious, By the time I hit fourteen, Id gone really wild, I ran away from home, smoked pot, dropped acid. After high school, Carlisle worked at a House of Fabrics store and she took night classes attending beauty college, but dropped out within the first year. At the age of nineteen, she left her parents home to pursue a career in music, Carlisles first venture into music was a brief stint as drummer for the punk rock band the Germs, under the name Dottie Danger. Around this time Carlisle did some back-up singing for Black Randy, soon after leaving the Germs, she co-founded the Go-Gos, with friends and fellow musicians Margot Olavarria, Elissa Bello, and Jane Wiedlin. Olavarria and Bello were soon out of the group and the new line-up included bassist-turned-guitarist Charlotte Caffey, guitarist-turned-bassist Kathy Valentine,1 album, Beauty and the Beat, which featured the hits We Got the Beat and Our Lips Are Sealed. The Go-Gos recorded two studio albums on I. R. S. Records, including 1982s Vacation, which went gold, Head over Heels, from their 1984 album Talk Show, made it to No.11. In 1984, Carlisle made a foray into acting in the movie Swing Shift starring Goldie Hawn, the Go-Gos disbanded in 1985 and Carlisle embarked on a solo career. Carlisles first solo album Belinda was released in 1986, also on I. R. S and this album was successful in North America and was certified Gold in the US and Platinum in Canada. Her summer hit Mad About You peaked at No.3 in the US, topped the Canadian Singles Chart, and charted in the top 10 in Australia. Mad About You was followed by the Motown-influenced single I Feel the Magic written by Charlotte Caffey, all three songs were included on her debut album

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House music
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House music is a genre of electronic music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s. Early house music was characterized by repetitive 4/4 beats, rhythms mainly provided by drum machines, off-beat hi-hat cymbals. While house displayed several characteristics similar to music, it was more electronic and minimalistic. House music became popular in Chicago clubs in 1984 and it was pioneered by figures such as Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Kym Mazelle, and Mr. Fingers, and was associated with African-American and gay subcultures. House music quickly spread to other American cities such as Detroit, New York City, Baltimore, in the mid-to-late 1980s, house music became popular in Europe as well as major cities in South America, and Australia. Since the early to mid-1990s, house music has been infused in mainstream pop, in the late 1980s, many local Chicago house music artists suddenly found themselves presented with major label deals. House music proved to be a successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular. House music has also fused with other genres creating fusion subgenres, such as euro house, tech house, electro house. After enjoying significant success in the early to mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the wave of progressive house. The genre has remained popular and fused into other subgenres, for example, ghetto house, deep house. As of 2016, house music popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene while retaining a foothold on underground scenes across the globe. The song structure of music songs typically involves an intro, a chorus, various verse sections, a midsection. Some songs do not have a verse, taking a part from the chorus. The drum beat is one of the important elements within the genre and is almost always provided by an electronic drum machine rather than by a human drummer playing drumkit. The drum beats of house are four on the floor, with bass drums played on every beat, House music is often based on bass-heavy loops or basslines produced by a synthesizer and/or from samples of disco or funk songs. The tempo of most house songs is between 118 and 135 beats per minute, soul music and disco influenced house music. These artists produced longer, more repetitive, and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings, early house producers such as Frankie Knuckles created similar compositions from scratch, using samplers, synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. Rachel Cain, co-founder of an influential Trax Records, was involved in the burgeoning punk scene and cites industrial

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Hip hop
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Hip hop is a subculture and art movement developed by African-Americans and Latinos from the inner-city South Bronx neighbourhood in New York City in the late 1970s. Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc also played a key role in developing hip hop music, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Herc mixed samples of existing records and DJed percussion breaks, mixing this music with his own Jamaican-style toasting to rev up the crowd and dancers. These youths mixed these influences with existing musical styles associated with African Americans prior to the 1970s, Hip hop music became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s, with the mainstream commercial success of gangsta rap. Critic Greg Tate described the hip hop movement as the only avant-garde still around, Hip hop culture has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the United States and subsequently the world. These elements were adapted and developed considerably, particularly as the art spread to new continents and merged with local styles in the 1990s. Sampling older culture and re-using it in a new context or a new format is called flipping in hip hop culture. Hip hop music follows in the footsteps of earlier African-American-rooted musical genres such as blues, jazz, rag-time, funk, cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into his stage performance. The group frequently performed with artists who would refer to this new type of music by calling them hip hoppers. The name was meant as a sign of disrespect, but soon came to identify this new music. The song Rappers Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang, released in 1979, begins with the phrase I said a hip, hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, and you dont stop. Lovebug Starski, a Bronx DJ who put out a single called The Positive Life in 1981, and DJ Hollywood then began using the term when referring to this new disco rap music. Bill Alder, an independent consultant, once said, There was hardly ever a moment when rap music was underground, one of the very first so-called rap records, was a monster hit. Hip hop pioneer and South Bronx community leader Afrika Bambaataa also credits Lovebug Starski as the first to use the hip hop. Bambaataa, former leader of the Black Spades gang, also did much to popularize the term. In the 1970s, an urban movement known as Hip Hop began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City. It focused on emceeing over breakbeats, house parties and neighbourhood block party events, Hip hop music has been a powerful medium for protesting the impact of legal institutions on minorities, particularly police and prisons. Jamaican-born DJ Clive Kool Herc Cindy Campbell pioneered the use of DJing percussion breaks in hip hop music, beginning at Hercs home in a high-rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the movement later spread across the entire borough. Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, on August 11,1973 DJ Kool Herc was the DJ at his sisters back-to-school party

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Information Society (band)
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The groups breakout hit was 1988s Whats on Your Mind, a synthpop/freestyle hit, which spent 39 weeks on the dance chart, going straight to No. 1, and would peak at No.3 on the Hot 100 pop chart. The track included a sample of Mr. Spock from Star Trek. The group is known for its fan base in Brazil, Japan, Spain. The name was chosen partly after Ingsoc, the term for English socialism in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1983 they independently released two albums, The InSoc EP and Creatures Of Influence, two years later it released Running, the groups first single, which became a hit popular in New York City Latin dance clubs and put them on the map. The song, a 7-minute excursion into electro-freestyle, was written and sung by Murat Konar and it was released on the Minneapolis-based label Twin-Tone Records, which was known for rock music rather than dance music. Kramer left the band shortly after the second single Walking Away was released, Records, had that option available to it throughout its years as a Warner subsidiary. In this case, Warner sub-label Reprise Records was the distributor, the groups 12-inch vinyl singles, however, were distributed through independent channels. A third single, the ballad Repetition managed to reach No.76 on the hot 100 also. The fourth single from the album was a cover of ABBAs Lay All Your Love on Me which hit No.23 on the dance chart and No.83 on the Hot 100. The audio samples from Star Trek were authorized for use on the album partially thanks to the efforts of Adam Nimoy, fan of the band, the album sold out its initial pressing in the United States in two weeks. Information Society reached gold status after 5 months of its release and would eventually turn platinum in the U. S, the album also went platinum in Brazil. The disc was one of the few to use CD+G, which included digital graphics on the disc version in addition to the music. The graphics for the CD+G portion can be seen on the Information Society Web site along with computer-based information which has been included on other releases. The songs Whats On Your Mind and Walking Away were used in a sampler disc bundled with the Sega CD to showcase the consoles CD+G capability, during this time the band released an anonymous single under the name Think Tank. Years later, Robb would release tracks under the name Think Tank through the record label Hakatak. They also had a song – the instrumental track Hit Me – placed on the soundtrack to the movie Earth Girls Are Easy, by 1989 Information Society joined the Club MTV Tour which also included Paula Abdul, Milli Vanilli, Tone Loc, Was Not Was and Lisa Lisa

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Milli Vanilli
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Milli Vanilli was a German R&B duo from Munich. The group was founded by Frank Farian in 1988 and consisted of Fab Morvan, the groups debut album Girl You Know Its True achieved international success and earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist on 21 February 1990. Milli Vanilli became one of the most popular pop acts in the late 1980s and their success quickly turned to infamy when Morvan, Pilatus and their agent Sergio Vendero confessed that Morvan and Pilatus did not sing any of the vocals heard on the record. This resulted in the group being stripped of their Grammy Award for Best New Artist, the group recorded a comeback album in 1998, but Rob Pilatus died before the album was released. According to VH1s Behind the Music, the single Girl You Know Its True was first produced by Jesse Powell and had already been completed before Rob Pilatus, Frank Farian felt that no efforts should be focused on refining Pilatus and Morvans voices. Farian added his own studio-augmented voice to recordings, using back-up singers to hide the two members voices live. In 2011 Morvan claimed that Farian manipulated the two by giving them an advance when he signed them. We were not hired, we were trapped Morvan recalled, the first public sign that the group was lip-synching came on 21 July 1989, during a live performance on MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut. They continued to pretend to sing and dance onstage for a few more moments, unlike the international release of All or Nothing, the inserts for the American version of the album explicitly attributed the vocals to Morvan and Pilatus. This prompted singer Charles Shaw to reveal in December 1989 that he was one of the three singers on the album and that Pilatus and Morvan were impostors. Farian reportedly paid Shaw $150,000 to retract his statements, as a result of American media pressure, Milli Vanillis Grammy was withdrawn four days later. However, their three American Music Awards were never withdrawn because the organizers felt the awards were given to them by music consumers. After these details emerged, at least 27 different lawsuits were filed under various U. S. consumer fraud protection laws against Pilatus, Morvan, on 12 August 1991, a proposed settlement to a refund lawsuit in Chicago, Illinois, was rejected. This settlement would have refunded buyers of Milli Vanilli CDs, cassettes, records, however, the refunds would only be given as a credit for a future Arista release. On 28 August, a new settlement was approved, it refunded those who attended concerts along with those who bought Milli Vanilli recordings, an estimated 10 million buyers were eligible to claim a refund and they could keep the refunded recordings as well. The deadline to claim refunds passed on 8 March 1992, the resulting album, released in Europe in early 1991, was renamed The Moment of Truth and spawned three singles, Keep On Running, Nice n Easy and Too Late. A Morvan/Pilatus lookalike named Ray Horton was depicted on the cover along with the singers, Brad Howell. In addition, the featured rappers Icy Bro on Hard as Hell

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Girl You Know It's True
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Girl You Know Its True is a 1989 album that was the U. S. debut of German pop group Milli Vanilli. In 1989, several songs from Milli Vanillis Europe-only release All or Nothing were repackaged and retitled Girl You Know Its True, the album was a major success in America, producing five top-five hits, of which three hit the top position of the Billboard Hot 100. On January 1990, Girl You Know Its True was certified 6x platinum by the RIAA after spending eight weeks atop the Billboard Top 200, the album was also certified Diamond in Canada, denoting shipments of over a million units there. The success of the album earned the duo a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, in addition, their Grammy was revoked, marking the first time a Grammy was ever rescinded from an artist. In Europe, this tune instead appeared on the album All or Nothing - The U. S. Remix Album. The track order on the U. S. release is out of sequence with the listing printed on its cover art, a few of the writers credits are inconsistent with what is listed in external sources. The decision to replace some of the tracks for the U. S. release was made by Arista Records president Clive Davis, and Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus are incorrectly credited with the vocals. G. G

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Hip hop music
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It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records, while often used to refer solely to rapping, hip hop more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. Hip hops early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks and Jamaican toasting, rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat. The Sugarhill Gangs 1979 song Rappers Delight is widely regarded to be the first hip hop record to gain popularity in the mainstream. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles, prior to the 1980s, hip hop music was largely confined within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began to spread to scenes in dozens of countries. New school hip hop was the wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D. M. C. The Golden age hip hop period was a period between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s. Notable artists from this era include the Juice Crew, Public Enemy, & Rakim, Boogie Down Productions and KRS-One, EPMD, Slick Rick, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Ultramagnetic MCs, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest. Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that often focuses on the violent lifestyles, in the West Coast hip hop style, G-funk dominated mainstream hip hop for several years during the 1990s. I. G. In the 1990s, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap, at the same time, hip hop continued to be assimilated into other genres of popular music, examples being Neo soul and nu metal. Hip hop became a pop music genre in the mid-1990s. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop, the United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics. Starting in 2005, sales of hip hop music in the United States began to severely wane, during the mid-2000s, alternative hip hop secured a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of artists such as OutKast and Kanye West. Creation of the hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap. Cowboy later worked the hip hop cadence into a part of his stage performance, the first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice, by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop

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MTV Classic (U.S. TV network)
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MTV Classic is an American television network owned by Viacom Media Networks. It was originally launched in 1998 as VH1 Smooth, an adult contemporary and it was relaunched as VH1 Classic Rock in 1999, with an emphasis on classic rock. On August 1,2016, in honor of MTVs 35th anniversary, the channel was rebranded as MTV Classic, VH1 Smooth launched on August 1,1998 as a part of the Suite digital package, delaying the original launch date of July 31,1998. The channel focused on jazz, new age, and adult contemporary music. The first music video to play on the channel was a cover of Makin Whoopee by Branford Marsalis, the channel was quickly renamed VH1 Classic in 2000. The network originally played only videos but had a varied line-up of music-themed programs and they also rebroadcast programs first shown on the main VH1 channel, including Pop-Up Video and I Love the 80s. The re-branded network would also air encores of past MTV original series such as the 2011 Beavis and Butt-head revival and Laguna Beach, The Real Orange County. The networks re-launch took place at 6,00 a. m. ET with a rebroadcast of MTVs first hour on the air, several VH1 Classic programs were retained in the existing schedule, albeit in late night. Three days leading up to January 1,2017, MTV Classic aired 24-hour block Decade-a-thons consisting of videos from the 1980s leading up to the 2000s. On January 1,2017, MTV Classic unveiled a new automated all-video schedule, list of MTV channels MTV MTV2 MTV Live VH1 Official website

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Electric Circus
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Electric Circus is a Canadian live dance music television program that aired on MuchMusic and Citytv from September 16,1988 to December 12,2003. The name originated from a nightclub that once existed at Citytvs first studio at 99 Queen Street East in Toronto, beginning in 1994, the show was also simulcast on MuchUSA. It had a following among United States viewers, especially dance music fans. A Francophone version of Electric Circus aired on Musique Plus, broadcasting live from Montreal in the format as the Toronto version. The MuchMusic studio on the floor of the CHUM-City Building in Toronto was used to film the show. Audiences often spilled out onto Queen Street West, and on warm days and it was common for dancers to be stationed on the CHUM-City rooftop, or even on the rooftops of buildings across the street, effectively making the surrounding neighborhood part of the set. Most music was prerecorded, but live acts were invited onto some shows, the show was hosted by Monika Deol and Michael Williams until 1996, followed by Juliette Powell until 2000. The show also featured dancing floor director MC Craig F, after that, Electric Circus had a variety of hosts. The show ran for an hour and a half until 2001, two concerts were hosted annually, one at Canadas Wonderland during the summer, and another at Winterlude in Ottawa during the winter. Like its American predecessors American Bandstand and Soul Train, Electric Circus was known for its flashy dancers, many of these dancers became fan favorites in their own right. A couple of these dancers later graduated to hosting the show, many of the dancers lived in the Greater Toronto Area and some regulars traveled from Niagara Falls, Montreal and Buffalo, New York for the Friday evening show. The shows original producer, Joel Goldberg, went on to many music videos. He took a minimalist approach to the set, using nothing more than a well-run Vari-Lite installation, camera work from videographers, talented dancers, as a result, Goldberg created a show that highlighted the music and the dancers while throwing cutaways to videos. Guest artists performed live, none lip-synched, in 1988, some of the original featured dancers included The WiZ, Tori G, WARP-1, The Hoody Boyz, Brenda C, Kenrick Pompey and Tyra J. Many of the dancers were regulars at The Club at Richards in Mississauga, the WiZ was also a DJ and producer, and created the first theme the show ever had, The EC Rap, as well as a short audio stinger for the breaks. In the summer of 1996, the show was completely re-imagined, a new show theme was also created, titled Hang On Here We Go. The song was included on the MuchDance 97 compilation CD and Pure Dance 3, the song was also released on 12 vinyl and CD single with various mixes and remixes. The song charted on radio and in clubs across Canada in the spring of 1998 and was performed live during Electric Circus at Canadas Wonderland in front of 50,000 people that summer

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The Party Machine with Nia Peeples
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The Party Machine with Nia Peeples is a half-hour late-night American musical variety show that aired in syndication for one season in 1991. The show was hosted by Nia Peeples and executive produced by Arsenio Hall, Arsenio Hall created The Party Machine as a televised afterparty to his own program, The Arsenio Hall Show, and to be a late-night alternative to Club MTV. Hall built the show around Nia Peeples, who previously hosted MTVs Friday night Street Party series. The Party Machine set featured live music venues, multi-level dance floors, conversation pits, a VIP room, a non-alcoholic bar, music videos were introduced by Peeples, who also served as a dancer/choreographer. The show, sold to markets as a piece to Halls talk show. In addition to Club MTV, its format brought comparisons to Soul Train, Dance Party USA, Party Machine aimed to be a showcase for established and breaking urban dance acts. New Jack Swing singing group Troop was the shows first guest. Other music acts who performed on the show include The Boys, Tevin Campbell, Taylor Dayne, Sheena Easton, En Vogue, Guy, LeVert, MC Hammer, Maxi Priest, Will Smith, Ralph Tresvant and Vanilla Ice. The show also featured comedians and actors such as Sinbad and David Faustino, initially, ratings for Party Machine were solid and on several occasions beat Late Night head-to-head in Atlanta, New York, Detroit, Miami and Washington. Viewership gradually dipped, however, and in June the show was cancelled, the final episode aired on September 15,1991. List of late-night American network TV programs